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"Chaaaahrts" He held them up so she could see and the woht up and reached for them "Cerebellum, pineal body, thalamus, interventricular foraed--it was sharp, ale to it, too, as if she ue before she said it

"Okaaay," Cole said, stretching the word out "That wasunexpected"

And then the woman turned over on her other side, and promptly passed out

Cole started to move toward the door, but I stayed exactly where I was, staring at her prone form I’h of a chance to process what I’d seen in her head to suddenly be curious about it

"What?" Cole asked, sounding further and further away as I slipped into her e, and instead of trying to navigating the glea scenes that popped up behindtheir flow I saw textbooks stacked high on a desk, young people in clothing decades out of fashion, rades; a bouquet of white roses that er, handso for her at the end of a long aisle strung with ropes of flowers; hospitals, rounds, baby clothes, a child with black hair sitting at a kitchen table, his back toward me--all of these s as s thelimpses into her life--splotches of rainbow color exploded over the scenes, and I was falling backward through white h in sleep now to relax both her mind and her body When I pulled back out of her mind and away from her bed, she didn’t stir at all

"What?" Cole asked "What did you see?"

I saw a mind that worked, that had whole, cohesive memories And I was more confused than ever

"I think" I began, rising up fro the need, or just by virtue of his own curiosity, Chubs was in the co at one of the empty desks near the front of the roo books were piled around him like fortress walls A few of the Greens had taken the laptops down into the garage to work on Liam’s and Alice’s projects, but Nico was still there, as he alas He saw me before Chubs did, and by the expression on his face, I knew I needed to talk to his," he said "First, it’s done"

"What we talked about?" I asked hi around his neck "All I need is to find a slasses fra it sincerely Cole had been right--Nico was ourto prove

He flushed a bit, squir at the praise, then lowered his voice drastically "The second thing--the other thing we talked about"

"We’ve talked about a lot of things," I re up the now-faain?"

"An eht before you left for Oasis--this IP is from one of the laptops, while it was still here in this room," he continued "It went to an address that’s now been deleted"

"Maybe so to hide the bitterness in ain, the siht one"

My eyes narrowed slightly "But you don’t believe that, do you?"

"It’s justsuspicious Liam made it sound like they only interacted with A files to them now, or why This one only stuck out to e Do you think it could have been Cole?"

"I’ll ask," I said "I don’t kno he’s been contacting his stepfather"

"This is a pretty secure way of doing it," Nico said approvingly "And Liam and the others didn’t hide any of their activity when they sent the ether that fast?" I asked flatly "Did any of it take with the press?"

"Wellthat’s the third thing" He clicked into a folder on the desktop, bringing up yet another ne "All of it is offline now--Gray’s censors shut the major news sites down until they stripped the story, but the photos and video have been popping up on hundreds of e boards, as well as several of the flash sites that Amplify feeds out to the net They throw up hundreds of versions of the exact same site with different do, so that at least one of the on the keywords that people are inputting I did screenshots of everything I could find in case you wanted to see it"

He put up the screenshot of CNN’s hoe, it took up half of it: tiled photos of the exterior of the ca out of the bunks Our backs as we ran down the hallway in those last est of the photos was of the wall, the dozens of red handprints that, if you were only scrolling by, could have beenfell was NO OASIS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT A ‘REHABILITATION’ CAMP